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A high-risk sex offender who fled Canada for Seattle has been arrested in the rape of a 69-year-old woman. Many are saying this wasn't a surprise and more should be done to keep offenders like this locked up.

AJ Jacobs, author and editor-at-large of Esquire Magazine, created Global Family Reunion, the largest family tree in the world. He wants to see how many people he is related to, and found out that you can pretty much be cousins with anyone and everyone.

The City of Seattle is rolling out a new pilot program allowing restaurants to build a "streatery." A streatery creates an outdoor eating space in the place of a parking spot, but some wonder which is more valuable.

When he was 12 years old, South Africa's Martin Pistorius got sick, and eventually lost all ability to speak or move. Doctors said he had the intelligence of an infant and he was ignored in care centers for more than a decade. But Martin's brain was fully functioning, and he was trapped in his mind and body for more than a decade until someone finally helped set him free. His new memoir, "Ghost Boy," tells his amazing story.

Seattle soccer star Hope Solo was on Good Morning America this week sounding apologetic about some choices she made that left her suspended from the U.S. Soccer team for 30 days. But not everyone is ready to forgive.

The Pierce County Sheriff's Department went into high gear in a search for a 16-year-old boy they believed was abducted last Thursday, only to find him a day later hanging out on the waterslides at the Great Wolf Lodge.

The community has not forgotten the brutal attack on the owners of King Donuts last month. While the suspect in the assault and robbery of Chea Pol and her husband Heng Hay is still at large, the search continues and the people of Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood are doing all they can to keep the couple safe and help them heal.

Two years ago, Blue Scholars' DJ Sabzi rapped about pho, now Jamil Suleman and Spekulation have released a rap about curry. And that's just the tip of the iceberg (lettuce) when it comes to the connection between hip hop and food in Seattle.

Sometimes really nice people have really mean jobs. Parking attendants, tax auditors, we assume these people are jerks. But often times they really are perfectly nice people, just trying to do their seemingly villainous job. I spoke with three people whose job is to be the bearer of bad news.

Some of the media coverage of Bruce Jenner's announcement to transition from man to woman has not been very kind or graceful. So we spoke with a local trans woman, and a Seattle psychotherapist, about what it means to be trans and how important it is to come out, after years of pretending.